Daniel Nogueira

Daniel Nogueira (17 September 1783-22 October 1858) was a politician of 19th-century Brazil during the imperial period. Nogueira was the leader of the Brazilian Liberal Party from 1836 to 1844, serving two terms as its leader in the elections. He preceded Juliano Bitencourt as Liberal Party leader.

Biography
Daniel Nogueira was born on 17 September 1783 in Aveiro, Centro, Portugal. His father Ernesto Nogueira was the leader of the merchant's guild of Aveiro, and Nogueira was given a privileged upbringing. At the age of seven, his family moved to Portuguese Brazil, where they sought to expand their business by exporting tropical fruits back to Iberia. Nogueira was educated in Altamira, Pará, a region of northern Brazil that had a considerable liberal population, and he became a wealthy merchantman. During the Brazilian War of Independence in 1822-1824, Nogueira was elected to the General Assembly Senate as a liberal representative from Altamira, and he became the party leader in 1836 after a runoff with Juliano Bitencourt. As the leader of the Liberal Party, he clashed frequently with Oscar Prado's Brazilian Conservative Party, and on 5 January 1839, his party won a victory when Emperor Pedro I appointed the Liberal Party as the new ruling party. This led to the Nogueira-Prado Affair, in which Prado promised to sue the government for appointing the minority party to rule the nation, although the Emperor was given this right by the 1824 Constitution. Nogueira was a skilled debater, and he managed to defuse the Conservative complaints. Nogueira appointed a new cabinet, inviting Agildo Bezerra to serve as his deputy. The cabinet improved the economy, ending the 1839 Brazilian economic crisis. Nogueira lost the 1844 elections for the Liberal Party to Bitencourt, who became the new liberal leader. Nogueira died in 1858 in Rio de Janeiro.